Posted: 27 Feb 2018 09:27 AM PST
Turn on CNN and you
get the impression that mass shootings are mainly carried out by mentally
unstable teenagers with assault rifles in high schools. But the data points
to a very different picture.
In the last 5 years, five major mass shootings were carried out using AR-15
or similar rifles.
The
perpetrators of the Parkland school massacre, the Las Vegas massacre and the
Texas First Baptist Church massacre were Americans. Muslim terrorists however
were responsible for the mass shootings at the Pulse nightclub and in San
Bernardino. While the Vegas shooter was responsible for the deadliest attack
last year, the deadliest attacks of 2015 and 2016 were both carried out by
Muslim terrorists.
Two of the last three years were dominated by mass shootings carried out by
Muslim terrorists.
In the last decade, there were only 10 major mass shootings where the death
toll went into the double digits. Three of those were carried out by Muslim
terrorists. That’s all the more remarkable since Muslims make up less than 1%
of the United States population, but account for 33% of major mass shootings.
Proportional to their representation in the population, Muslims are
responsible for far more mass shootings than Americans.
The trend is worrisome. Since 2015, not a single year has passed without a
Muslim mass shooting. While 2017’s Muslim mass shooter Kori Ali Muhammad only
managed to kill three people in Fresno, his expressions of racial and
religious hatred make it clear that we are dealing with a hateful pattern.
Muhammad had sought to kill "as many white males as possible". He
shouted, “Allahu Akbar” when captured by the police. While the media has
emphasized Dylann Storm Roof’s racist attack on a black church in Charleston,
he was only 1 of 3 racially motivated mass shooters in the past 5 years, 2
were African-Americans, Muhammad and Micah Xavier Johnson, the Black Lives
Matter protester who murdered 5 Dallas police officers. Johnson’s massacre of
police officers and September 11 were the deadliest attacks on American
police officers in this century. Both were carried out by Muslim attackers.
Johnson and Muhammad allegedly both had Nation of Islam ties. As did Gavin
Long, who shot six police officers (three fatally), in a spree of racist
violence. The funeral of Lovelle Mixon, who murdered 4 police officers in
Oakland, included a minister from the Nation of Islam. A hate group
championed by Obama’s church, by the Congressional Black Caucus and by a top
figure in the Democratic National Committee.
The Nation of Islam is the racist hate group whose leader had met with Obama.
Rep. Keith Ellison, No. 2 at the DNC, was a longtime member and it was
recently revealed that he had also met with its leader.
It is deeply disturbing to learn that two-thirds of the racist mass shootings
in the past 5 years were carried out by murderers with ties to a racist hate
group that had connections inside the White House, whose leader had met with
members of the Congressional Black Caucus and whose man has the second top
job at the DNC. When asked about his Farrakhan connections, Rep. Ellison
attempted to deflect by urging the media to look at white nationalist gun
violence. But black nationalist gun violence is just as important. And it is
rarely discussed because its existence taints top Democrats like Obama and
Ellison.
John Allen Muhammad, also known as the Beltway Sniper, was also a member of
the Nation of Islam. The racist terrorist and his accomplice murdered 17
people. The NOI has less than 50,000 members and yet it has managed to
account for a disproportionate number of mass murderers in this century
alone.
Can gun control stop Muslim mass shootings? Gun control advocates urge us to
be more like Europe.
The Muslim terrorists who attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo
came packing assault rifles, submachine guns and a grenade launcher. The
Bataclan terrorists had assault rifles and hand grenades. The total death
toll from that wave of attacks stands at 130. Last year, a Muslim terrorist
opened fire on police officers on the Champs Elysees with an AK-47 rifle. Gun
control doesn’t stop Muslim terrorists.
Gun control doesn’t stop terrorists, but immigration laws do. They can’t kill
us, if they can’t come here.
Even as lefties demand the suspension of the Second Amendment, they
vehemently oppose common sense Muslim migration reform. Even as cable news
filled with vocal demands for gun bans, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
announced that President Trump wasn’t allowed to protect our children from
Muslim migrant terror. The decision was met with unanimous cheers by the
media.
But despite the claims by various lefty activist judges there is nothing in
the Constitution mandating that Muslim terrorists be allowed to enter the
United States. There is however an explicit right to bear arms.
An op-ed in the Washington Post declares that, “The Second Amendment is being
turned into a suicide pact.” But it’s open borders migration from terror
states that is turning immigration into a suicide pact.
Mass shootings remain a small fraction of the shootings that take place every
year. Most fatal shootings are still suicides. Mass shootings, especially
those carried out with rifles, are a fraction of a fraction. But Muslim mass
shootings represent a growing percentage of that fraction. If the media is
truly concerned about mass shootings, it must discuss the role that Muslim
terrorists play in these mass shootings.
And if not, there’s no reason to take the fake concern of fake news about
mass shootings seriously.
Likewise, if the media is serious about racist violence, it needs to take the
Nation of Islam seriously. Its literature and paraphernalia should receive
the same treatment that the Dukes of Hazzard got after the Charleston church
shootings. And when that doesn’t happen, the media’s hypocrisy must be
challenged.
The media wants to talk about mass shootings as if they are the work of
inanimate objects. It doesn’t want to talk about motive, whether it’s mental
illness, Islamic beliefs or black nationalist racism. But inanimate objects
don’t kill people. Media propaganda blames the NRA and gun owners for
shootings carried out by the mentally ill, and by the Muslim terrorists and
the black racists who are their allies.
After Omar
Mateen murdered 49 people in the Pulse nightclub massacre, Obama blamed the
Muslim terrorist’s gun. He demanded that Congress “end the plague of violence
that these weapons of war inflict on so many young lives”. He pontificated
that “those who defend the easy accessibility of assault weapons should meet
these families and explain why that makes sense.”
But inanimate objects don’t “inflict” anything. And it was up to him to
explain why he believed that Muslim migrants, like Omar’s immigrant Afghan
parents, should have easy access to America.
Hillary Clinton had also denounced the “weapon of war”. Then Omar’s father
showed up at her rally.
The media wants us to talk about guns instead of people. It’s time to stop
talking about triggers and start talking about the killers who pull them.
That’s not the conversation that Obama and Hillary, that CNN and the rest of
the media want us to have. But the numbers show it’s the one we need to have.
Daniel
Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David
Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the
Center's Front Page
Magazine.
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